Glare screen



Nw. 1o, 192s. 1,561,391

. J. A. WRIGHT GLARE SCREEN Filed Jan. 17, 1923 `Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. WRIGHT, 0F MAQUOKETA, IOWA.

GLARE SCREEN.

Application filed Januaryl 17, 1923. Serial No. 613,202;

To all whom it may concern.' Be it known that'I, JOHN A. WRIGHT, citizen of the United States, residing at Maquoketa, in the county of AJackson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glare Screens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved glare screen for motor vehicles and seeks, as'one of its lprincipal objects, to provide a device which may be readily attached to a vehicle wind shield for cutting off the glare of the headlights of an oncoming vehicle or screening the eyes of the driver against the rays of the sun.

The invention has a further object to provide a device which may be readily adj usted at any desired angle with respect to the wind shield or may be swung upwardly to a position out of the way.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a device which will be characterized by extreme structural simplicity but which, in practical use, will prove entirely eicient.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front proved glare screen,

Fi re 2 is a vertical sectional view on the l1ne 2-2 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows and showing the device applied, and

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on the elevation of my imline 3--34 of Figure 1.

In carrying the invention into elect, I

' employ a supporting hanger which is preferably struck from a-piece of suitable resilient sheet metal and includes an oblong hinge bar 10 formed at its upper Vedge with bowed upstanding spring clamps 11 located near the ends of the bar while at its lower edge the bar is provided with a pair of hinge loops 12 located near the ends of the bar and a third similar hinge loop 13 disposed substantially midway between said first mentioned loops. Swingingly supported by the bar 10 is a screen frame comprising an upper side rail 14 and end rails 15 integral with the side rail, the frame being open at itslower side since the presence of a lower side rail upon the frame would likely form` an obstruction in the view of the driver. As shown in Figure 3,. the frame is channeled to accommodate a screen 01E green colored Celluloid 1G or the like and formed on the end rails of the frame at their upper ends are hinge loops 17 straddling the loops 12 of the hinge bar 10. The rail 14 of the frame is also provided with a hinge loop 18 mating with the hinge loop 13 o't' saidbar and extending through the several loops is a hinge rod 19, At one end this rod is provid'ed with a head 20 abutting the adjacent loop 17 of the screen frame as well as the adjacent end edge of the hinge bar 10 and freely surrounding the opposite end portion of the rod is a washer 21 abutting the other end edge of the bar as well as the'other of the hmge loops 17 of the frame. Threaded upon the latter end of the rod is a thumb nut 22 and surrounding the rod to bear between said nut and the washer is a spring 23.

4In Figure 2 of the drawings, I have shown the device applied toaa conventional vehicle wind shield 24. As will be observed, the

clamps 11 are engaged over the top rail of' the wind shield for supporting the device .to extend in front of the wind shield at the inner side thereof. The clamps will, of course, grip said rail so that the device will be lirmly held in place without rattling and by providing the body bar 10, the clamps will be braced by said bar with respect to each other so that individual canting of the clamps will be prevented. Furthermore, the bar will provide a rigid supporting element for the screen frame sustaining the frame at its vends as well Ias medially thereof. As will Vbe appreciated, the device may be readily arranged at the proper point upon the wind shield so as to with the lugs 17 of the screen frame for.-

the head 20 of the hinge. rod and frictionally holding the frame against downward movement. Furthermore, said head and the Washer will cooperatewith the' end edges of the hinge bar 10 4for holdingthe,

provided at its ends with a pair of upstanding hinge lugs, a unitary hanger comprising an oblong bar provided at 'its upper edge with spaced suspension clamps and at its 15 lower edge with -a pair of depending hinge lugs fitting between and mating with the lugs of the frame whereby the bar is limited against endwise movement relative to the frame, the end v,edges of the bar and frame lying flush with each other, a hinge rod extending through said lugs swingingly connecting the frame with the bar and provided at Yone end with a head to contact corresponding end edges of the bar and frame, and spring pressed means upon the opposite end of the rod to contact the opposite corre spending end edges of the frame and bar.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.`

JOHN A. WRIGHT. [L 9.] 

